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Permission to add the binary release to Chocolatey #539

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@WhitespaceQ

This is a very useful package and I'm noticing that this is absent from my Windows package manager of choice (Chocolatey)

I'm not endorsing nor affiliated with Chocolatey, they way they works is the community can add packages they deemed useful and then install them using the command line akin to how apt works in Linux, i.e. in PowerShell choco install wgcf with the additional benefits of auto-updates through choco outdated; choco update all -y. See https://github.com/jakublevy/chocopkgs/ and how WireGuard is packaged https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/wireguard to get a feel of how your packages will be published, all binary will be pulled directly from your GitHub releases for most users (there's caching for Enterprise) and there's a strict checksum checks before any binary is installed. No modification will be done to the binary and attribution goes directly to you.

At this point though, because of the nature of how packages are installed as-is, there won't be a documentation presented to users like if they pulled the packages directly through your GitHub repository (because they will be presented with and had time to review the README.me) so that's a pain point. I'm not saying that this package is hard to use but to use it properly the users needed to go through specific steps before importing the profile to WireGuard and this is absent if we're calling wgcf directly from the command line.

I know that this is a set-and-forget application as users can generate the necessary profile then never touch it again but I look at this as an opportunity to learn and contribute to the broader open-source community.

Please let me know if you're against this, I won't move forward without your explicit permission.

I cannot guarantee delivery dates as I'm still a user of choco and this will be my new packages on their platform.

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